New on the #twitter front: Apps not authenticating

Normally I just pass this shiznat over - but seeing that I've had NOTHING but problems with both seesmic and twidroid authenticating twitter lately ... see, even @mrskutcher noticed it!!! This might be why ...

Over the coming weeks, we will be making two important updates that will impact how you interact with Twitter applications. We are sending this notice to all Twitter users to make sure you are aware of these changes.

What are applications?

There are over 250,000 applications built using the Twitter API. To use most applications, you first authorize the application to access your Twitter account, after which you can use it to read and post Tweets, discover new users and more. Applications come in many varieties, including desktop applications like TweetDeck, Seesmic, or EchoFon, websites such as TweetMeme, fflick, or Topsy, or mobile applications such as Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for Blackberry, or Foursquare.

Update 1: New authorization rules for applications

Starting August 31, all applications will be required to use “OAuth” to access your Twitter account.

What's OAuth?

• OAuth is a technology that enables applications to access Twitter on your behalf with your approval without asking you directly for your password.


• Desktop and mobile applications may still ask for your password once, but after that request, they are required to use OAuth in order to access your timeline or allow you to tweet.

What does this mean for me?

• Applications are no longer allowed to store your password.


• If you change your password, the applications will continue to work.


• Some applications you have been using may require you to reauthorize them or may stop functioning at the time of this change.


• All applications you have authorized will be listed at http://twitter.com/settings/connections.


• You can revoke access to any application at any time from the list.

Update 2: t.co URL wrapping

In the coming weeks, we will be expanding the roll-out of our link wrapping service t.co, which wraps links in Tweets with a new, simplified link. Wrapped links are displayed in a way that is easier to read, with the actual domain and part of the URL showing, so that you know what you are clicking on. When you click on a wrapped link, your request will pass through the Twitter service to check if the destination site is known to contain malware, and we then will forward you on to the destination URL. All of that should happen in an instant.

You will start seeing these links on certain accounts that have opted-in to the service; we expect to roll this out to all users by the end of the year. When this happens, all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL.

What does this mean for me?

• A really long link such as http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048 might be wrapped as http://t.co/DRo0trj for display on SMS, but it could be displayed to web or application users as amazon.com/Delivering- or as the whole URL or page title.


• You will start seeing links in a way that removes the obscurity of shortened links and lets you know where each link will take you.


• When you click on these links from Twitter.com or a Twitter application, Twitter will log that click. We hope to use this data to provide better and more relevant content to you over time.

Thanks for reading this important update. Come and check what's new at http://twitter.com.

Thanks,
The Twitter Team

Good bye #bootycall, hello! #bootytweet!!!

 HAHAHAH!! I was at Happy Endings on Friday with @maniacalmorgan ... *cue 4sq checkin*

... and the topic of booty callin came up. Because clearly when two hot nerds go to a bar, technology and sex are totally fair game.

I turned and said, gone are the days of the booty call ... bring on the booty tweet! yes - sex in 140 characters or less. And considering the go-go pace of the online medium and the new tech savy chicas that are coming out of their shell ... I'm thinking this could def stick.

Come ONN!!!! Sending an @reply with some cute nerdy "come fuck me" code - that only you and your nerdy lover know is HOOOTTTT!!! Like SCORCHING hot!!! Don't hide your cute, funny, sassy, love notes via text messaging ... tweet it out, lovers!!!!!!!

I dee triple double dog dare you!!!!!

Twitter #lists are down ...

Don't get your nerdy knickers twisted. This isn't your brain on drugs.

That's your brain on drugs ... any questions?

HAHA! Totes kids.

Anywhooo ... don't know whats kickin chicken, but should be back soon. Sit tight!

an open letter to my latest follower

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @MikeDelic          

dear @adultsexygifts,    

not that i have anything against sex dolls, i actually have one, of a sort anyway.  i call it my hand, and it works fine thank you very much.  what i'd really like to know is, who is the marketing genius that came up with your twitter strategy?  is it one of the dolls?  i mean seriously you must be under the impression that sex dolls sell themselves.  i am sorry to inform you that this is an erroneous assumption.  cockrings may sell themselves, and buttplugs, and maybe doubledongs, but sex dolls do not.  if you want to sell more sex dolls you are going to have to be a little more creative, and even then, you wont get any business from me.  i already own a bunch of weird sexy shit including an impressively large collection of scrotum clamps and a one terabyte external hard drive full of the finest pornography that germany and japan have ever produced.  but i dont want to be one of those creepy people who gets a lifesized sex doll.  if i really wanted to make love to a woman made of plastic that badly i would just move to los angeles.

not that i'm not curious.  i mean, i have always wondered how realistic they felt, and tho i'd heard some testimony back when i used to listen to howard stern i understand that such judgments are highly subjective and that beauty is in the eye (or whathaveyou) of the beholder, moreso in this case than in the case of certain other things, like double rainbows, which everyone loves and can work themselves into orgasms over with relative ease.  and i am willing to admit that as effective as my current sexdoll/hand is i sometimes yearn for something more, although i dont think that one of your sexdolls is the thing for me.  on the one hand i'm guessing that they dont talk, and that seems cool, but on the other hand they probably cant make sandwiches either, which is most definitely uncool.  now, judging by the complete lack of creativity in your tweets i am guessing that you lack the requisite ingenuity to make a sex doll that can make me a sandwich.  that is a shame.  tho i guess if it could do that it would be more like a robot than a doll.  a sex robot i could maybe go for.  tho a sandwich-making robot would be even better.  come to think of it i dont even really care about the sex.  a robot that could make sandwiches and go to the store and get me coffee and cigarettes, that is what i really want in life.  where can i get one of those?

yours truly, @mikedelic

p.s. i hope you get gored by a rampaging elephant with aids on its tusks.  xo

12 Reasons I get Unfollowed

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @Mikedelic

1. simple miscommunications ("--please dont proposition me it's creepy"   "--i didnt ask you to marry me i just said i wanted to finger you")

2. making insulting tweets at new followers who are clearly just marketing something and have no real interest in my awesome tweets ("dear new follower, @toysonline -- thank you for follwing me.  i hope you get aids and catch on fire.")

3. fallings out between friends because of honesty ("--not that i'm saying you're shallow, but only tweeting about 4square and what you are currently eating is really annoying and you should up your game a little for the good of the team kthx")

4. sharing politically charged links with people whose politics differ radically from mine. 

5. death threats

6. hatin on popular stuff that i hate ("i hope justin bieber has her period on stage and everyone makes fun of her and then they dump pig blood on her at homecoming (cont.)..."   "...(cont.) but that she lacks the telekinetic powers necessary to take violent revenge upon her antagonists")

7. scaring off chicks who at first think i am quirky but then think i am creepy ("-- thank you for following me, we are best friends now.  maybe this seems a little forward, but someday i will meet you in real life and finger you.")
 
8. making fun of the world cup ("i hope soccer gets aids and catches on fire")

9. goatserolling

10. making referential jokes that are offensive to people who are not familiar with stuff that almost everybody else seems to know about and be riffing on ("i will respond to your tweet about the yummy noms you had for snacksies, but you will blow me first.")

11. using the same jokes/imagery too much ("i hope you get aids from being fingered and catch on fire")

12. tweeting too much

~~lessons i have learned~~

1. dont talk to chicks about fingering them until you are right about to do it
2. justin bieber is actually a boy
3. a lot of stupid people like dumb soccer


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